June 7, 2011

The second comment — right after "Wow!" — at a post called "Rep. Anthony Weiner for President" at the "progressive feminist blog" Shakesville. It's from last July, when Weiner got "quite rightly, mad as hell about it—and he's not going to take it anymore" at the blogger Melissa McEwan saw it, responding to this Weiner freakout on the floor of the House:

Other progressive feminist comments:

I've watched this clip about a thousand times today. I absolutely adore him....

I just saw this piece on CNN. Maude bless him. THIS is what we need more of....

I adore this. I may have to watch it later with headphones after the kids are in bed, so that I can REALLY turn it up. "The gentleman is correct in sitting" may quickly become part of my lexicon, right alongside "here we have pie."

I gotta say, I totally dig this guy. I love that he rants and tells it how it is in these moments. I love his passion.

Someone clone his backbone NOW and send it in pretty packages to the rest of the do-nothing Dems in office. He is made of 50% win and 50% badass.

Clone his backbone? Clone his frontbone!

Probably they can hear my loud, excited SQUEEEEEEE all the way to Washington....

Swoon! I love this guy!...

*giggle* Hate to say it, but I can already hear all the "Clinton/Weiner" jokes now....

Well, now, there's a progressive feminist with great hearing. She could hear all the way into next June.

Whenever Anthony Weiner is on Rachel Maddow, I get this big, goofy smile on my face.

You think Huma is suffering, but have some sympathy for all the progressive feminist fangirls who'd thought they'd found true love this time.

He's the archetypal asshole you knew in college who attacked other men as "sexist pigs" and parroted feminist cliches in the hopes that the professors would give him good grades and that the feminists would fuck him.

And, predictably, the professors gave him good grades and the feminists fucked him.

Tells it how it is???? Like when he argued incessantly that repealing ObamaCare would increase the deficit, based on an OMB report that even the OMB warned was misleading due to the rules under which they were required to score it?

This guys a fucking liar. We now know that not only does he lie on public policy issues, he even lies to the ones he proports to love. Anybody who has not been able to see through this bastard needs to reassess their sense of judgement.

You think that was passion? You think "passion" had anything to do with his little internet manipulations of lonely and impressionable women? That's not passion, it's a manifestation of an aggressive, domineering, manipulative personality.

You don't actually think the feminist fangirls will change their minds about him, do you? Has even one of those nits said "he's scum and I'll never support him again", or have they excused him because he's on their team? I know which way I'm betting.

An unhinged rant, even for a fairly righteous cause, is not admirable in anyone. These pathetic little twits mistake his spittle-flecked tantrum for real courage, only because they don't know any men or women with real courage. The guy or girl peeling potatoes at Kandahar Air Base has more courage in his or her little finger than this pathetic meat sack has in his whole misshapen body.

You think "passion" had anything to do with his little internet manipulations of lonely and impressionable women? That's not passion, it's a manifestation of an aggressive, domineering, manipulative personality.

Anyone want to venture a guess on how many of these women had stable, supportive, loving fathers in the home? There are reasons that people fall for liberalism.

Male primates beat their chests to attract females. Feminists want you to think that on some fundamental level they are different than other, less liberated and enlightened woman. They would like you to believe they have transcended biology. They haven't.

More evidence (as if it was needed) of the Left's need for hero-cult as an essential part of their politics and self-image. For a supposedly independent-minded group they seem awfully fond of adulation of the "big Daddy" du jour: FDR, Adlai, JFK, MLK, Che, Malcolm X, Dylan, Obama and now Weiner.

As much fun as it is to point and laugh at all these women who found this ridiculous mountebank the epitome of virile, manly leadership, I honestly don't see much difference between that and Conservative eagerness to see the next Chris Christie video.

You think that was passion? You think "passion" had anything to do with his little internet manipulations of lonely and impressionable women? That's not passion, it's a manifestation of an aggressive, domineering, manipulative personality.

Horrible, horrible man.

6/7/11 11:54 AM

Not passion in an operetic sense, on in a tragedy sense, or in a religous sense, but in a patheic lack of control over one's base chakras sense. Or rather, in a very New Age "if it feels good do it" sense.

I really do thank AA for this compilation: it's quick a rich lode, and I'm sure it gave her as many smirks as it's given me.

I truly do regret the impressionability of today's left-leaning girls. All joking aside, it's pitiful. They're so duped. If they have brains, they've been seduced into autolobotomizing; if they have no brains, they've been duped into believing themselves smart.

Either way, the results have been catastrophic on my lovelife. And society-- that too.

For a supposedly independent-minded group they seem awfully fond of adulation of the "big Daddy" du jour: FDR, Adlai, JFK, MLK, Che, Malcolm X, Dylan, Obama and now Weiner.

There's a rather abrupt dynamic change in there, round the mid-60s, yes? I was going to say "decrescendo," but "subito pp" is more like it. I mean partly that the heroes decline pretty rapidly in quality, but also that there seems to be a gap of, oh, forty years or so.

No one seems particularly nostalgic for McGovern (which is too bad, since I can't think of another pol so far left who has so much intelligence and good sense), nor even for Clinton (the male one). As for Jimmy Carter, I think even his ertswhile fans wish he would retire, already. He's almost as annoying as Biden, which is a positive accomplishment.

wv: subill. I wouldn't sue Bill. He might be disbarred, but I bet he could afford a good attorney.

What is striking is the overt sexual and romantic interest these feminists have in Weiner. Sure, plenty of conservative men think Sarah Palin is attractive, but these girls are getting positively moist over Weiner. There's a palpable element of sexual fantasy at play here.

absolutely adore him....

I adore this. I may have to watch it later with headphones after the kids are in bed

I gotta say, I totally dig this guy... I love his passion.

Probably they can hear my loud, excited SQUEEEEEEE all the way to Washington....

Swoon! I love this guy!...

Whenever Anthony Weiner is on Rachel Maddow, I get this big, goofy smile on my face.

Anyway, think about the women who fell for Edwards. A woman in my town did. I was at the '08 local Dem caucus, for Hilary, if you must know, because I thought we could get another term for Bill that way. She was the only one for Edwards and made an impassioned speech for him. She had Edwards bumper stickers all over her car and Edwards signs in all the windows of her art gallery. I'm afraid to ask her how she feels about him now because she might rupture a blood vessel.

Shouting as far as I can remember in the sixties and seventies one did not have to attack other men as sexist pigs to get laid by feminist or non-feminist as those were the days of equal opportunity and experimentation with little fear of STDs. Further today's new generation of feminist have their own take on feminism as evidenced by Molly Jong-Fasts who is very traditional, others who like to wear stiletto heels and view porn. It strikes me that this form of self-crated virtual pornography that Wiener and others indulge in has become today's safe substitute for the real thing. Still that does not excuse the cover-up.

Any time I feel the slightest bit of sympathy for jerks like this I see him grandstanding on the senate floor and forget all about it. This guy has been demagoging repubs for the longest time, and had no problem embarrasing his enemies.So if he becomes embarrased through a conroversy of his own making I can't really shed many tears.

From what I've read, he didnt have much to do with this bill. One reason he didnt have other Democrats lining up behind him was he avoided doing much of the backstage work or attend meetings, but was pretty happy throwing a fit on the floor and going on the tv shows getting credit for it. So THAT'S what real leadership looks like.

"Leadership" looks like that, eh? Be damned to me. I rather thought it was what I have seen in dangerous places and times, where men and women thought of others first, worked like hell to help in hard tasks at risk to themmselves, stood out as an example of calm in the midst of chaos....but apparently it should have been unhinged shouting all the while. Guess I have a few things to learn about "leadership"...

There's an awful lot of self adulation in that rhetoric. He's striking a pose, not making an argument. Reminds me of something else about him.....At any rate, after the past week's demo of impassioned lies, he will never be able to credibly strike such a pose again....

There's the grand Weiner Lie, of course, but there's also the "Coaching The (Ex)Porn Star To Lie" lie as well. A few others as well.

When this brief saga (or should I say "Briefs Saga"?) gets written up into profitable book format, this many-faceted pile of lies will have to be carefully categorized according to type, date, audience, etiology etc.

I still say that the more pertinent question is "What do we really want young people to learn from all this?"